Health IT

An app that gets patients to pick up their phone without giving them your personal number.

Mobile technology has the capacity to improve your practice, specifically when it comes to tablet-based patient care.

Affecting real change with clinical or claims analytics isn’t about getting the right report, it’s about asking “How?” and “Why?”

As physicians, we tend to care for the wellbeing of others such as our patients or our family members. This app helps us help ourselves.

Searching for medical information via electronic records is great …when the data you need is in there.

Blockchain is one of the hottest words in cybersecurity. Best to know what it is.

A recent article in The New York Times pointed out how some tech advancements in medicine are done at the harm of patients.

A concierge doc shares his experiences with using chatbot technology as a way to provide patients more value.

Here are three guideline mobile apps that will help primary-care physicians get their jobs done.

The big health IT conference has finished. What did this editor learn from the annual show?

The EHR is the cause for many physicians to be burned out - but this doesn't have to be the case.

Healthcare data is a huge target for hackers. If a practice is reactionary, all of their hard work could be at risk.

At HIMSS18, less regulation and more market-driven innovation was the name of the game for the ONC's top officials.

Clinical registries can assist medical practices with their quality initiatives, but also provide a high-tech community, says one expert.

Jared Kushner and Seema Verma spoke at HIMSS18 about the administration's vision for interoperability and better patient data access.

Tech can do great things in health care, but it can also lead to a failure in communication.

Implementing smartphones into clinical practice can improve physician response times, increases efficiency and transforms care team communication.

HIMSS18 has arrived. The Physicians Practice editorial staff has gone through and picked out the top 10 things you should do during your limited time in Las Vegas.

Are you issuing embarrassing correction emails after goofing up your initial correspondence? Here's how to avoid this snafu.

Telemedicine is convenient and easy, but that doesn’t mean it's for every practice. This practice found that out the hard way.

Our editorial advisory board tells us their favorite apps to use in medicine. What made the list?

BrowZine is a must for anyone looking to carry a wealth of knowledge with them on-the-go.

Looking to upgrade your EHR or PM systems? Here are a few must haves.

More practices are adopting mHealth technologies in different ways, but the lack of evidence surrounding these apps has some concerned.

Mobile is in as three out of four practices saying they use mobile health (mHealth) in their practice on a weekly basis.